My post from March 23, 2021, looked at Mary Moore Easter’s excellent book of poetry, Free Papers. The poems in it reveal the trials and obstacles of a woman–Eliza Winston–determined to obtain her freedom in a society groomed to deprive her of it. The title refers to the manumission papers that would declare an end […]
The winding road of my journey to conceive, research, and write my novel, Destiny Reclaimed, led me to the wondrous Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa. The Fon people, who inhabited the kingdom, had a rich culture. Their history, customs, beliefs, and characters present a garden of outrageous blossoms to seed a writer’s imagination. One […]
The Plot Thickens 